Anders Johansson wrote:
Mike McMullin wrote:
One of the died in the wool windows guys at work has a couple of SGI boxes kicking around at home. We were talking about them and installing Linux on one or both. So what particular architecture should he use for an Octane and an O2?
The SGI website indicates that the Octane and Octane2 systems are MIPS, which means that there is no SUSE (or any other, that I'm aware of) distribution for it. You'd have to build your own
Actually there is one distro (if you want to call it a distro) that supports MIPS :-) Gentoo has a MIPS project here: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/mips/index.xml I've used it to get Linux up and running on an old O2 I had kicking around. It does work.. just follow the directions on the website. There's even a MIPS LiveCD. C.